The New York Times is looking to improve its live news coverage by creating a more dynamic news report across surfaces, including formats such as Live Blog, Live Chat, and Storyline Feed, and to simplify and modernize the underlying architecture to ensure unparalleled system reliability and high availability during critical news moments.
Requirements
- Full-stack technical background with expertise in one or more areas of the stack
- 2+ years of experience building large-scale full-stack web applications and features using modern JavaScript frameworks (React, Angular, Vue') and backend languages (Node.js, Java, Go)
- 2+ years of experience with web fundamentals (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, web performance, accessibility)
- Familiarity with one or more persistence technologies (SQL, NoSQL, Firestore)
- Familiarity with troubleshooting and resolving issues in a production environment
- Experience utilizing public cloud platform services such as Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Experience with DevOps practices, including CI/CD techniques and tooling (e.g. Drone, Jenkins), automated testing and deployments, observability and monitoring
Responsibilities
- Lead feature development from technical design to production operation, serving both our readers and internal users (editors), adapting to the rapid pace of the news cycles to seize breaking opportunities.
- Work across the full stack, build systems in modern technologies, write high-quality code, and continuously expand your skill set.
- Collaborate with designers and product managers to prototype news-driven features, and evolve them into scalable systems.
- Collaborate with other engineers and teams to execute platform migrations as part of ongoing modernization effort.
- Ensure features you create are reliable, scalable and secure, in partnership with your project team.
- Deploy, operate and troubleshoot your code in collaboration with the broader team.
- Operate with a product engineering mindset, contributing insights to bridge technical and product aspects to enhance reader and news needs.
Other
- Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a strong commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world.
- Provide production support to the newsroom for live coverage by participating in on-call rotations for the tools we build.
- Limited on-call hours, with an on-call schedule determined when you join, taking into account team size and other variables.
- 2+ years of experience
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
